“The secret history of mind control”
This is an interesting book, it works its way through a number of attempts at mind control. It covers truth drugs, hypnosis, torture, subliminal advertising and religion.
There is a lot of good detail about the background of some of the experiments done by the CIA into finding truth drugs. Reading this, though, was a little disconcerting since it was putting a series of things I thought were conspiracy theories into a very precise historical context, either this is part of the conspiracy or they actually happened.
Beyond this there are descriptions of many attempts to make a Manchurian Candidate and extract information using torture and drugs, and how to resist such attempts.
All in all, an interesting book, pulling together a nice collection of information about attempts at brainwashing and controlling peoples thinking. None of this is much of a surprise, but its good to see it brought together with a lot of detail about how things fit.
Who should read this book: anyone who is interested in mind control, anyone interested in conspiracy theories.